Unravelling Liberal Interventionism: Local Critiques of Statebuilding in Kosovo

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction: Local critiques of intervention and statebuilding
	Can the local speak?
	Unpacking the local turn in statebuilding studies
	Local critiques of statebuilding in Kosovo
	Note
	Bibliography
Chapter 2: International statebuilding and local resistance in Kosovo
	Introduction
	Local resistance against liberal interventionism
	Local opposition to international statebuilding
	Speaking truth to local resistance
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 3: From Kosovo with hospitality: Rethinking hospitality beyond Westphalia
	Introduction
	EU and Kosovo: two structures outside of the Westphalian system
	Derrida’s hospitality
	Kosovo in the EU: from scrutinised conditional hospitality to overt hostility
	The EU in Kosovo: unconditional hospitality
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 4: The hyperreality of EU 
enlargement: A Baudrillardian critique of the European Union in Kosovo
	Introduction
	Enlargement as we “know” it
	Jean Baudrillard as a critique
	The European “hyperreality” of Kosovo
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 5: Local inclusion or exclusion? Security sector development in Kosovo
	Introduction
	Security for whom and by whom?
	The challenges of “internalising” local ownership in the Kosovar security sector
	Statebuilding without armed forces
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 6: Making the law, ruling the law: International statebuilding and the rule of law in Kosovo
	Introduction
	International constitution making and the challenges to Kosovo’s statehood
	Fragmented legal drafting when designing an even more fragmented rule of law sector
	The [lack of] power of the judiciary
	Specialist chambers – the champion of innovation and interference by the international community
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 7: Local voices and agency in statebuilding: Perspectives from life stories
	Introduction
	The critique of liberal peacebuilding
	Uncovering the “subaltern” local perceptions though life stories
		Relational dimensions of local inclusion
		The international exclusion of dissenting local voices
		The persistence of identity and the paradox of multi-ethnicpolitics
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 8: Voices of the Serb minority in the assembly of Kosovo
	Introduction
		Minority parliamentarians and ethnic power-sharing
	MPs’ perceptions of their incentives
		MPs’ performance: between conflict and cooperation
			Inter-groupconflict
			Silence and boycott
	Cooperation and integration: the “authentic voice” of Kosovo Serbs
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 9: Inside-outand outside-in on dealing with the past in Kosovo: Actors, voices and practices
	Introduction
	Standpoints on witnessing and enacting: local academics in transnational space
	The law and the protest
	The law
	On sovereignty and self-determination
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 10: The subaltern of the local: The Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian women and statebuilding in Kosovo
	Introduction
	Artificial empowerment and silencing
	Some important but neglected issues
		Acculturation
		Roma camps
		Wartime rape
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 11: The politics of citizenship, social policy, and statebuilding in Kosovo
	Introduction
	UN administration: the context, the new policy, and results
	Post-independence:particularism, bureaucrats, inequality
	The dual social rights of the Serbian community
	Social policy and democratisation: what future trajectory?
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 12: Conclusion: After local critiques
Index